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Pye Poems - Poems about Pye

Premium MemberNicky's Road Kill

...Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home.
A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the
      forties.
But the head is crushed beyond recognition—maybe it’s a fox an...
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Categories: pye, death, dog, flower, mother
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaulie My Pet Bee

...Honeybee danced round beautiful indeed
singing in my ear and pink Joe-pye weed.
I tried to shoo it away
the hummer this summer day
a nasty sharp sting that is all I need

Twas beautiful as a su...
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Categories: pye, flower,
Form: Limerick



Sursum Corda

...SURSUM CORDA 

(for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack, 
Bridgton, Maine)

“Come see us, we’ll talk about the job."

you were convalescent, generous, 
and anxious to get your hands moving
into the ...
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Categories: pye, cancer, fate, friendship, strength,
Form: Ballad

Good and Evil

......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small 
     Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories: pye, fantasy,
Form: Verse

A Moral Dilemma

......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampli...
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Categories: pye, philosophy,
Form: Verse



Good and Evil

......a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake

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Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target...
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Categories: pye, dedication, writing,
Form: Verse

Good and Evil

......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a repres...
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Categories: pye, tribute, writing,
Form: Quatrain

Good and Evil

......a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake

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Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target...
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Categories: pye, fantasy,
Form: Verse

A Moral Dilemma

......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampling of ...
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Categories: pye, adventure, spiritual, people, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Good and Evil

......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free,
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a representative samplin...
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Categories: pye, fantasy, people, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Wild Awakening

...Springtime rain brings fresh array 
of flowers east to west.
The Rockies’ red and purple tufts
of mountain pride are best. 
And mats of foliage named moss pink face south to get the sun
while bu...
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Categories: pye, naturerain, blue, rain, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme

Good and Evil

......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a repres...
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Categories: pye, allegory
Form: Quatrain

Balding and Sprightly

......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small 
     Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories: pye, dedicationpeople, people,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAmerican Pye

...The
drips
of Still
awakened
Pollock's expressions
to make a Lichtenstein cartoon....
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Categories: pye, art, funny,
Form: Light Verse

Good and Evil

......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake


Balding and sprightly, he's filled with 
     bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small 
     Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories: pye, inspirational, people, people,
Form: Verse

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